I am Senior Researcher at PGP (Physics of Geological Processes) at the University of Oslo. I am the scientific coordinator of the Fluid Earth Group at PGP, which involves activities on volcanic processes, CO2 sequestration, and petroleum systems.

PGP was a Norwegian Center of Excellence aiming to bring geologists and physicists to work together in order to get a better understanding of the geological processes. Although the CoE status of PGP ended, PGP activities continue in a group in-between the Departments of Physics and Geosciences.

News!!

19 Dec. 2014 - Petromaks proposal funded!

My proposal to the Petromaks call of the Research Council of Norway, entitled "MIMES: Mechanical Implications of Magma Emplacement in Sedimentary Sequences" has been funded! In 2015, another PhD student and a postdoc will start at PGP.

10 Dec. 2014 - FRINATEK proposal funded!

My proposal to the FRINATEK call of the Research Council of Norway, entitled "Dynamics of Igneous Plumbing Systems in Sedimentary Basins (DIPS)" has been funded! In 2015, a PhD student and a postdoc will start at PGP.

8 Dec. 2014 - Earth Flows project funded!

The Earth Flows application as Endringsmiljø in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences as been funded. We will have 6 new PhD students-postdocs, and I will be the main supervisor of one of them on "Magmatic flows" together with Atle Jensen (Mathematics department).

Manuscript newly published in publication in Journal of African Earth Sciences

I was invited to present the photograph exhibition of the Andean Geotrail, at the Recent discoveries and NCS Prospect Fair meeting at Fornebu. It was organized by the Norsk Geologisk Forening and Halden Carstens from GEO365.

Photograph exhibition and public conference at the Realfag Bibliotek, Campus Blindern, 27 February 2014

I will present the photograph exhibition of the Andean Geotrail, the outreach project based on a 9-month cycling adventure in the Andes with Caroline Sassier, at the Realfag Bibliotek, Campus Blindern, University of Oslo. I will also present a public conference on our project on 27 February, at 16:00.

This short Meeting report summarises the main outcomes of the AiQAM meeting held at GFZ Potsdam on Quantitative kinetic avalysis in laboratory models of Geological Processes. The meeting was co-organized with Karen Leever and Matthias Rosenau (GFZ Potsdam) and Valerio Acocella (Rome). Download paper.

With Anja Røyne, we just published an outreach article in the Norwegian Newspaper Aftenposten Viten on the mysterious 1258-1259 gigantic volcanic eruption detected in the ice cores of Greenlanc and Antartica.

One of the photograph of the Andean Geotrail photograph exhibition has been selected as the image of the week, on the 7th October. The image displays the wonderful petrifying springs of Puente del Inca, Argentinian Andes, at the foot of Cerro Aconcagua (6959 m.o.s.l.), the roof of the Americas.